Judith Trim
{{Short description|English studio potter}}
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| birth_place = Cambridge, England
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| alma_mater = Bath Academy of Art
| occupation = Studio potter
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Judith Trim (11 October 1943 – 9 January 2001,{{Cite news|first= Emmanuel| last= Cooper |title= Judy Trim |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/judy-trim-728769.html |newspaper=The Independent |date= 25 January 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630205507/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/judy-trim-728769.html |archive-date=2011-06-30 |url-status= dead|access-date= 2011-05-30}} also known as Jude or Judy, and for a while by her first married name, as Jude Waters) was an English studio potter. From 1969 to 1975, she was married to Roger Waters of the rock band Pink Floyd,{{Cite book
| publisher = Omnibus Press
| isbn = 978-1-84938-370-7
| last = Mabbett
| first = Andy
| title = Pink Floyd - The Music and the Mystery
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| edition = 1st UK paperback
| year = 2010
}} her childhood sweetheart.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011j39v|title=Desert Island Discs, Roger Waters|date=2011-05-29|work=BBC Online|publisher=BBC|access-date=29 May 2011}}
Biography
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Trim's father was a research scientist at the University of Cambridge, but encouraged her to concentrate on art. She took A-levels in the arts and natural sciences at Cambridge's County High School for Girls, and then studied at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham. During her time with Waters, she worked as an art teacher, including a period during the mid to late 1960s at Walthamstow High School for Girls and Dame Alice Owen's Girls' Grammar School in Islington, North London.{{Cite web|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O112476/pot-trim-judy/|title=Pot {{!}} Trim, Judy {{!}} V&A Search the Collections|website=collections.vam.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-01-24}}
She was shown on the gatefold sleeve of the original release of Pink Floyd's 1969 album Ummagumma, but was excised from subsequent CD reissues. The uncropped picture was restored for the album's inclusion in the box set Oh, by the Way. Waters says that when he played her the finished recording of The Dark Side of the Moon, she burst into tears, which Waters saw as an indication that the work would be successful.{{Citation | title = Classic Albums: The Making of The Dark Side of the Moon| publisher = Eagle Rock Entertainment | date = 26 August 2003 }} He has admitted to infidelities during the marriage, and to his regret that they lost him his wife, and describes "the beginnings of the end of that marriage" as occurring in Greece in the summer of 1974.{{cite web |last1=Waters |first1=Roger |url=https://www.facebook.com/rogerwaters/posts/1506241642752969 |website=Facebook |access-date=24 March 2023 |date=4 August 2017 |title=August 4, 2017 |quotation=One of my oldest friends, Nick Sedgwick, died in August of 2011 of brain cancer... In the summer of 1974 Nick accompanied me, and my then wife Judy, to Greece. We spent the whole summer there and Nick witnessed the beginnings of the end of that marriage. }} They had no children together.
Following her divorce from Waters, she spent ten years living alone in London, concentrating on her pottery, focusing on coiled pots. She held an exhibition at the Anatol Orient gallery in Portobello Road, London, in 1989, and others at Contemporary Applied Art, Contemporary Ceramics and Ruth Coram Arts. Her work is in the collection of museums such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,{{cite web|url=http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=65914;type=101|title=Judy Trim. Tall Vase.|publisher=Los Angeles County Museum of Art|access-date=30 May 2011|archive-date=24 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324231325/http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=65914;type=101|url-status=dead}} Norwich Castle,{{cite web|url=http://www.culturalmodes.norfolk.gov.uk/projects/nmaspub5.asp?page=item&itemId=NWHCM%20:%201997.28|title=Judy Trim ceramic bowl|publisher=Norfolk County Council|access-date=30 May 2011|archive-date=20 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720150850/http://www.culturalmodes.norfolk.gov.uk/projects/nmaspub5.asp?page=item&itemId=NWHCM%20:%201997.28|url-status=dead}} the Ashmolean Museum,{{cite web|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/documents/AR2000-01-b.pdf|title=Ashmolean Museum Annual Report 2000-2001 (PDF)|access-date=30 May 2011}} the Fitzwilliam Museum.{{cite web|url=http://www.artfund.org/artwork/7212/dish%3A-narcissus|title=Dish: Narcissus by Judy Trim|publisher=The Art Fund|access-date=30 May 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.artfund.org/artwork/7947/oval-dish%3A-blue-ceremonial|title=Oval Dish: Blue Ceremonial by Judy Trim|publisher=The Art Fund|access-date=30 May 2011}} the Shipley Museum{{cite web|url=http://www.artfund.org/artwork/4478/oval-mauve|title=Oval Mauve by Judy Trim|publisher=The Art Fund|access-date=30 May 2011}} and the Victoria and Albert Museum.{{cite web |title=Swaddled Mauve {{!}} Trim, Judy |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O112477/swaddled-mauve-bowl-trim-judy/ |website=Explore the Collections |publisher=Victoria and Albert Museum |access-date=24 March 2023 }} Some of her work was sold through the Crafts Council shop at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She signed her pottery with the initials "JT", in a circle.{{cite web|url=http://www.freeformsusa.com/ceramics/british.htm|title=British Studio Ceramics|publisher=Freeforms|access-date=30 May 2011}}
In 1996 she married the architect and painter Leonard Hessing, with whom she had one son, Theo. She died on 9 January 2001, from breast cancer.{{cite news |title=Pink Floyd rocker Roger Waters marries for the fifth time: 'Finally a keeper' |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/pink-floyd-rocker-roger-waters-marries-for-the-fifth-time-finally-a-keeper/YUKG753IUKVO5ZEXTJJOHY5OCE/ |access-date=28 April 2022 |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=15 October 2021}}
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Category:20th-century English women artists
Category:20th-century British ceramists
Category:Alumni of Bath School of Art and Design
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Category:English women ceramicists